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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-28
The proceedings Of the County Com
missioners will be published next week
It will be long, but interesting.

Our local correspondence page will
prove to be interesting reading, this
week. We have new correspondents
at Leroy, Rose Creek, Haydeld, Grand
Meadow, Dexter, and Nevada. The
towns in the county that are not repre-
sented, we expect soon will be.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-28

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY
0OF MOWER, SIS.
In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Elizabeth
McIntire. deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Ella
Harrison of said State, representing, among
other things, that Elizabeth McIntire, late of
Austin, in said County, on the Goth day of Oc-
tober, 1884, at Austin, in Mower County, died
intestate, and being a resident of this County
at the time Of her death, leaving goods. chat
tells and estate within this county, and that
the said petitioner is a daughter OF said de-
ceased and praying that administration of
said estate be to her granted, it is ordered
that said petition be heard before the Judge
February. 1887. at 10 O'Clock a. m, in Austin,
at the Probate Office in said County.
Ordered further. that notice thereof be given
to the heirs of said deceased, and to all err
sons interested. by publishing copy of this
order for three successive weeks in the
MOWER COUNTY TRANSCRIPT, a newspaper
printed and published at Austin in said
County.
Dated At Austin. tue 18th day of January,
A. D. 1887. -.....
By the Court,
w. w. RANNEY,
2lJan-4t Judge of Probate.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-28
ALL of our exchanges have something
to say about Austin.

THE financial statement, will be pub
ished next week.
Telegram-herald., 1887-11-14
IEYAN &C0NPANY INSTAILMENT H0USE So AND IS CATAST


We are always FIRST in ADOPTING new
and practical improvements in the Laundry Business
he it expensive nOtif IT IS going to add e
tatOn of work. We must have ii.
We after doing things to perfection III line.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22
Wanted Romance.


From Wilmington Messenger.1
They were from Bladen county, and the
conversation dropped into marriages, and
they were in Market street boarding
house.
Said one: ''Did you hear about Jim
Blanks and Miss Sallie Blanks getting
married last week?'
"No," replied the other, "but l expect
ed it; everybody knowed it was going to
come off,
"You see," explained the first granger,
''this marriage was little out of the
usual line There wasn't a bit of objec-
ton. Both of 'em were well off and had
plenty and to spare to go right straight to
keeping house on. The old folks were
willing, and the young folks had been
sweethearts from childhood. But they
didn't want no humdrum business about
it. 'Twan't the way they do IN yallow-
| back novels.
| $50 jim told his father he was going off
| on a fishing frolic down to the Sound, and
| Sal told her folks she was going on visit
to her cousin in Pender. Holy Moses.
when they got back they had been married
week They just told the old folks they
were bound to have little romance about
the thing.
cover in my neighborhood they do
things seeker n that. They amt takin
any romance in theirs When John
Whatshisname got married-you know he
had made right smart Of money and was
getting along towards middle age-it was
not comical. One day he and Bill Some
body were sitting in the back door of the
store. Bill says to John, why don't yor
get marred.'"
81 amt got no time to be foolin' rount
courting," says John, "but I'll give yol
my mare there if you'll git me good wife
and the mare is worth fifty dollars"
agreed" says Bill, and sure enough
he went off and got the gal in the notiol
and named the day and took John up
the first time he eyer saw her-and ha,
the preacher there, and had 'em spliced
He got his mare.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22
THE STATE GRANGE.
This Excellent Order Gathers Strength
as 1t Grows in Years.

The 18th annual session of the State
Grange was held at Tarboro last week.
Thirty seven oranges, which have mem
bership OF 1 800 were represented. There
are in the State 62 oranges, having mem
bership aggregating over 1000. Thirty
six new oranges have been organized IN
the past year and the increase IN member
ship has been 100 per cent.
Mr. Willis K. Williams, Senator from
Pitt. is Master of the Grange. The reports
that reach the CHRONICLE office are that
he made one Of his famous and character
istic speeches, full of denunciation of the
speculative rings and all others who prey
upon the farmers. Discussions of practl-
cal topics followed. Among those who
spoke, DR.. R. II. Lewis, Of Raleigh, dis
cussed the DAIRY Product Dr. d. b.
Battle spoke on ''Fertilizersio and Mr.. NJ.
j. Battle gave practical talk on Farm
ing" 4 paper on Grasses, written by
Capt S. b. Alexander was read. Capt.
| Alexander could not attend
The Grange adjourned with a big ban
quet which was equal to the best that
| Tarboro could furnish, which, being IN
terpreted, means that the company was
| the brightest, the repast the most enJoya
BILE, and the wines the most sparkling:
| Long live the State Grange! And long
life to honest Willis r. Williams, It's hon
ored Master!
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22

l trust you will reform while yet there
time.
The hlaCAest sinner may find mercy still.
(FnclOSed n'eaSe find Il thousand dollar bill J
Our paI h, vi Coarse on different roads must
lie:
Don't ,llow me for any more Good-by
| score ed the dirty rag till it was black;
Enclo> q 1t in a rag and sent it back.
That very night l cracked tradesman's s
door,
Stole with my blistered hands ten thousand
more,
Which next day took special pains to send
10 my good, distant, wealthy, high-toned
friend
And wrote upon it in steady hand.
In words | hoped he wouldn't n4isunder
money is cheap, as l have shown you here,
But gratitude and sympathy are dear.
These rags are stolen-have been-may of
ten be:
trust the one wasn't that you sent to me.
Hoping your pride and you are reconcile,i-
From the black, sinful rescuer of your child. -
l crept to court-a crushed, triumphant
worm
Confessed the theft, and took another term.
My life closed, and began; and am back
Among the rogues that walk the broad
guageG track.
l toll mid every sort of sin that's known:
l walk rough roads-but do not walk ALONE.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22
The Farmers Meeting in Greensboro,
January 1 lth and 18th, 1888.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.I

Especial COr. SIAIE CHRONlCLE.I
Ample arrangements have been made
with the hotels and boarding houses for
the entertainment of delegates and visit
ors at the following reduced rates The
Benbow House, 81 80 per day; the McA-
doc house, $50 per day. The various
boarding houses from rs cents to 81 per
day. If found necessary good many can
be entertained in private families. Greens
boro says ''cOme on, we will provide for
you Reduced rates on all the railroads
have already been secured and published
in the State papers.
Besides the very important and interest
ing proceedings of the Convention proper,
there will be sp, cial addresses on appro-
pirate topics by the following great edu-
Gators of the day, viz: Hon. G. X.
Adams, President of Cornell University,
New York; Hon. Kemp p. Battle, Presi
dent of the University of North Carolina;
Prof. Joseph Moore, President Friends
School, New Garden, N. c.; Prof J. F.
Crowell, President Trinity College, N. G.
This occasion will be a rare opportunity
for the farmers of North Carolina to join
together and work for the common good.
Let there be a large attendance from all
parts of the State.
d. REID PARKER.
For Committee.
State papers please copy.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22
BY THEO. H. HILL.

BY THEO. H. HILL.
east, went before them till it came ana
stood over where the young child was"
-lSt Matt. vii, 9.
One night, while lowly shepherd swains
Their fleecy charge attended,
A light shone o'er Judea's plains
Unutterabiy splendid.
Far in the dusky Orient,
A star, unknown in story,
Arose to flood the armament,
With more than morning glory.
The clustering consultations, erst
50 gloriously cleaning,
Waned, when its sudden splendOr burst
Upon their paler heaming;
And Heaven drew nearer Earth that night,
Flung wide its peary portals
Sent forth, from all Its realms Of light,
Its radiant immOrtals:
They hovcred in the golden air,
Their golden censers swinging,
And woke the drowSy shepherds there
With their seraphic singing.
Yet Earth to greet her gala day,
No jubilee was keeping,
Unconscious of the light, she lay,
In silent beauty, sleeping.
No more shall brightest cherubim,
And stateiest archangels,
SymphoniOus, sing such choral hymn
Proclaim so sweet evangeiS'
No more appear that star at eve,
Though glimpses of its glory
Are seen by those who still believe
The shepherds simple story.
In Faiths clear armament affair."
To Unbelief stranger,-
Forever glows the golden star
That stood above the manger.
Age after age may roll away,
But on Times rapid river
The light Of its celestial ray
Shall never cease to quiver.
Frail barges, OF the swelling tide,
Are drifting with the ages;
The skies grow dark, around each bark
A bowling tempest RACES
Pale with alright, lost helmsmen steer,
While oreaking timhers shiveri
| The breakers roar,-grln Death is near, -
o who may now deliver,
light from the Heraldic Star
Breaks brightly DER the billow;
The storm, rebuked, is fled afar,
The pilgrim seeks his pillow,
ost.-lost indeed, his heart must be-
His way how dark with danger
| Whose hooded eye may never see
| The Star above the MangeI!
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22
CHRISTMAS SHADOWS.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE
If minor chords there be
Blent with the pleasant strain,
They do but tend
-, Oh - anI

Especial Cor STATE CHRoNICLE.]
If minor chords there be
Blent with the pleasant strain,
They do but tend
To make it end
In fuller harmony
Oh the happy, happy, happy Christ
mastide with lightnesS and its brightness,
with it's music and its gladness and its
JOY Where is the season that can COM
pare with it in the universally, in the
abandon of its gayety? In the homes of
the rich and by the humbiest hearth of
the poor, it makes its influence felt; what
brow SO rugged, what heart so grabbed,
what pocket so niggard or so straitened,
as not to relax in a measure under the
genial contagion that fills the very air.
But by some unbidden impulse, my
mind turns from tho comprehensive cheer
and wanders arbitrarily away to an alien
theme, and fancy imagines a lustreless,
dull jet centre set within a circlet of dia-
monds the dark symbol of mourning sur
rounded by the flashing points of light :;
how the darkness is enhanced by such a
border!
depth of sadness is intensified by the sur
rounding and abounding Joy.
There's minor in the carol,
And shadow in the light,
And spray of cypress twining
With the holly wreath tonight.
Ah Z. yes, full many mother this night
looks through miSts-with smile floating
on the bosom of tear-watching the fun
and frolic of her children; she misses so
sorely the patter of little feet, merry
laughter wakens in memory the echo of
the music of voice that is stilled forever
on earth.
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north wind
breath,
And stars to Set-but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, oh
Death.
And hence in many homes this glad
festival is sad anniversary, all the sad
der for the JOY that seems almost like
| the sacrilege of treachery to the memory
| of the loved one.
| MAY such not remember that Christ
mas with its star herald and its angels
song was, after all, but an incident, 2
means to an end? The joyous birth was
still the birth of the imam of SORROWS" but
the prelude to the death that opened the
| gates of heaven, into which gates those
little feet have gone to the beautiful home
| of the blest. 1t was He who took little
children to his arms and said, ''Suffer the
| little children to come unto me, and for
bid them not, for of such is the kingdom
of heaven" Did he not say the same t.
you, when the little one you mourn lai(
aside its toys and went home to God
eff we could but hear them singing
AS they are singing now,
If we could but see the radiance
OF the crown on each dear brow,
There would be no sigh to smother,
No hidden tear to flow"
SAMUEL NJ. SMITH.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22
Taste.

The first step in taste is to dislike all
artifice; the next is to demand nature in
her perfection; but the best of all is to
find out the hidden beauty, which is the
soul of beauty itself, to wit, the sentiment
of it. The loveliest hair is nothing if the
wearer is incapable of grace. The finest
eyes are not fine if they say nothing.
What is the finest harp to me, strung with
gold and adorned with the figure OF Venus,
if it answer with a discordant note and
hath no chords in it fit to be wakened2-
Leigh Hunt.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22
Married Under Difficulties.
[From Durham Recorder.

Esquire NJ. A. Angler married J. A. I'm
derhill to Miss A. NJ. d. Fowler at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Proctor near the cotton fac
tory. The contracting parties We're from
Wake county. The girls parents opposed
the marriage, and she eloped with her
lover Her father started in pursuit with
a shot gun and determination to kill I'm
derhill on sight. He came to Durham and
learned that the license had been issued,
and that they were to be married at night
He reflected, and did the handsome by
witnessing the ceremony, but the old man
broke down and sobbed when the last
words were spoken.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22

John Ruskin speaking of the girls, says:
my primary thought, is how to serve
them and make them happy; and if they
could use me for plank bridge over
stream or set me up for post to tie a
swing to. or anything of the sort, not re-
quiring me to talk, should be quite hap
py in such promotion
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22

They say the longest days in June,
The shortest in December;
And yet / cannot think it's true,
Because, don't you remember
How very short those days in June
When we two were together,
And how the longest days of all
Were in the winter weather.?
Whate'er the almanac may say,
No matter what the weather,
The days seem long when we're apart,
And shortest when together.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22

Eighty years hence it will matter
little whether we were peasant or peer,
but it will matter much whether we did
our duty as one or the her."-[Stopford
Brooke.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22
CHRISTMAS POEMS.
SPIRIT OF THE HAPPY CHRISr.
MAS TIDE.

Will Carleton Tells the Story of Il Con-
vict's Christmas Eve--TheO. IL. Hill
Sings of the Star Above the Manser.
Have goodwill
To all that ives, letting unkindness die,
And greed and wrath; SO that your lives be
made
Like soft airs passing by.
i Edwin Arnold.
"There is no home how well soccer defended
But holds one vacant chair,
There is no fold tho lovingly attended,
But one dead lamb is theren'
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22

Blessed is he that considereth the
poor; the Lord will deliver him in time OF
trouble The Lord will preserve him, and
keep him alive: and he shall be blessed
upon the earth: and thou wilt not denver
him unto the will of his enemies. Il Psalms
xii. 1, g
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22

From the prayer of want and plant of woe,
Oh, never, never turn away thine ear
FOrlorn In this bleak wilderness below,
All what were man should heaven refusa to
hear, -lBeattie.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22

Weak lungs, splitting of blood, consump-
ton and kindred affections, cured without
physician. Address for treatise, with 10
cents in stamps, Worlds Dispensary Medi-
cal Association, G63 Main Street, Buffalo,
n. Y.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-22
The Sentiment of Every Young Man at
Christmas.

State papers please copy.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07
THE FIFTIETII CONGRESS.
BOTH HOUSES ORGANIZED WITHOUT
ANY EXCITEMENT.

All the Senators Sworn in Except Fauik-
ncr-The Republicans Retain the Or
ganization of the Senate-Carllsle Made
Speaker of the House.
WASHINGTON, Dec. g. The war In the
senate has ended, and it was only a war of
roses There has been and there will he no
deadlock. The Republicans have not OBJ
jected TO the swearing in of Democratic
senator's, and the Democratic senators have
not objected to the administering OF the
oath to the Republican senators. The
mysteries of series of caucuses have been
unnecessary, and the edicts OF the first
beligerent caucuses have not been full
filled.
But one senator is kept standing at the
door Mr. Faulkner OF West Virginia -
and he stands aside with the common con-
sent of both parties in the senate, obtained
just before the assemblage of the senate, as
the result of a compromise. His credentials
are alleged to be irregular on their face;
besides, Mr. Lucas, a solemn looking man
with hunchback, who sat in one Of the
seats behind tho senator's desks, claims
that he holds certificate from the gov
ernor of the state, aud is entitled to the
seat which Mr.. Faulkner hopes to get.
The senate is formally organized. There
has been no revolution, there is to be no
deadlock. The Republicans retain control
of the organization, and are likely to keep
it until death or resignation or the lapse OF
terms shall create new vacancies which may
be filled by their opponents.
John q. Carlisle was chosen speaker Of
the house
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07
Postal Laws.

For the benft Of all persons concerned, and
they are many, We give the United States Postal
Laws relating to newspapers and subscribers
/. Subscribers who do not give express no
tce to the contrary considered as wishing to
continue their subscription.
II. If the subscribers order the discontinue
ance of their periodicals the publisher may con,
tnue sending them until all arrcarages are paid
up. -.
III. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their periodicals from the office to which they
are directed, they held responsible until they
have settled their bill and ordered them discon-
tinued
" If subscribers move to other places and
fail to inform the publisher, and the papers are
sent to the former direction, they are held re-
sponsible.
V. Any person who receives newspaper
and makes use of it, whether he has ordered 1t
or not, is held in law to be n subscriber.
VI. II subscribers pay in advance, they are
bound to give notice to the publishers at the end
of their time, if they do not wish to continue
taking it; otherwise the publisher is authorized
to send it on and the subscriber is responsible
until express notice, with payment OF all ar
rears, is sent direct to the publisher.
The new postal amendment has made 1t a
penal offense to refuse to pay for newspaper
and may be imprisoned for fraud.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07

A congressman recently returned from
England, is authority for the statement
That Secretary Bayard's untimely deciara-
ton 20 the British Foreign Office, that the
Untee>States wiehes to avoid a quarrel
on the New England fisheries at any cost,
just after Minister Phelps had made a
convincing statement, has had the effect
to cause complete change in the tone of
Great Britain. Before that there appeared
to be disposition among English people,
to concede the American demand and the
controversy in its earlieat stages seemed
certain to result in favor of the United
States. Now all is changed and ap-
parently because Of the humilist ng atti-
tude Of the State Department at Washing
ton.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07
FIftjeth ConpYese.

The two branches of Congress assem-
bled Monday last, but the Presidents
message WAS not sent in until Tuesday
In the Senate the credentials OF new
members We're presented, and in the case
of Faulkner, of West Virginia, Turpie,
of Indiana, protests were presented
which were referred to committees in thu
House
On the calling of the roll 3l3 members
answered Mr.. Cox nominated Can l>ls
for speaker and Mr.. Cannon nominated
Reed, Messrs. Randall, Mills, Long ant
Mckinney acting as tally keepers. The
vote resulted as follows:
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07

Gail Hamilton has gone to England.
Talbot, the Newark impostor, has visited
the Hub.
The Servian skuptschina was opened by
King Milan
A bill will be introduced early In the SEES
sion Of congress to regulate and restrict i'm
migration.
Wallace Ross has sailed for England to
row Bubear.
Algernon S Sullivan, a prominent New
York lawyer, is dead.
Schaefer has issued a challenge to any
billardst in the world.
Kansas farmers took possess lon of a coal
train and helped themselves.
Manager Sharsig OF tho Athletics has
gone to St Louis for Caruthers.
complete reorganization Of the Cana
dian cabinet is TO take place shortly
James H. McGindley, a pension swindler,
has been given ten years imprisonment and
fined $1,000.
The Rogers locomotive works at Trenton,
N j., were damaged to the extent of $40
900 by fire.
The recent ST. Louis arrangement Is not
satisfactory, and another railway rate war
is in prospect
Lively skirmishes have occurred between
armed police boats and oyster pirates in
Chesapeake bay.
The graduate advisory committee has
decided that the Harvard Yale foot ball
score must stand.
The Commercial hotel at Gnelph, Ont,
was burned. All the guests saved them
selves by jumping
A man named Fogarty, prominent in the
Limerick riots last week, was arrested while
embarkng for America.
successful trial has been made of Lieut..
Graydon's method Of firing dynamite shells
from service guns, at Sandy Hook.
The lumber mills Of H. F. Eaton &
Sons located at Barring, were totally de-
stroyed by fire, Monday morning. Loss,
1000; Insurance, $1,000. By the de-
struction of these mills the town of Bar
ing receives severe blow.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07
Our Holiday Reporter,

We give our readers an 8 page sheet
this week well filed with reading matter
In great variety, and q number of ad-
vertlsemcnts Of reasonable grade. Our
merchants have got their stores well fill
ed with goods. adapted to holiday trade
as we'll ~ TO trade that IL not In the
holiday line. You will wsnt to look owe
the Rxr0rER thoroughly and SO what on
merchants have TO say, and then you can
know just where to 60 to get your
worth.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07

All orders for new advertisements and
for changes in old advertisements should
in this busy advertising season, be filed,
at the REPORTER office : early as Tues
day noon, the day before issue, each week
otherwise they will stand an even chance
of getting left over. We do our best to
accommodate our patrons, but there Is
limit to the capacity of country print
ing office.